Catching Up....

Ok...so I know it's been a looooonnnnnggggggg time since I've updated the blog.  

I VOW to get all caught up before the New Year!!! :)  

Thanks for being patient! 

Christmas With The Cotas

We went up to Grams and Gramps' house Christmas Eve day.

Lori, Jeff and Mallory came up to celebrate, too!

We had a delicious prime rib dinner and shared gifts to each other and from Auntie Rea Rea and Uncle Rob.

 

Then after everyone left it was time to get ready for Santa.

Annalise got the cookies and Avery wrote the note...

Story time with Grams before bed...

Then in no time, they were fast asleep....(and we caught them holding hands! :) )

 

And the next morning....Santa had been there!!!

 Annalise was thrilled that the message had gotten to him about the wheelchair for her doll!

There was time to play with all of the cool presents....

Time to go feed the horses and take a ride on the doodle bug with Gramps!

Avery was also anxious to try out the new game Grandma and Grandpa got her....Ticket to Ride.

It was really cool....long....but fun!

And most of all...we had time to be with family!

Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas

We headed to Spokane to Grandma and Grandpa's house first.

We would celebrate Mark's birthday and Christmas with the Schneider side of the family.

Mark was well-celebrated.

Then it was on to Christmas!!!!

We started the celebrating with dinner and Christmas Caroling....

 Elsa even accompanied a song on the piano!!!

(Nice job Elsa!!!)

The next morning was our "Christmas" Day.

We started with breakfast and moved on quickly to stockings and presents.

Paul even got a present from his doppelganger, Todd Hoffman.....

Avery was SUPER stoked about her Seahawks jersey!!!

And Bella with her Snuggie....

We spent the rest of the day just hanging out and playing.

The girls even did a little performance for us.

We had a monologue, a piano concert and a magic show.

Annalise was a great doorperson! ;)

After Avery got to make elf donuts with the Girl Scouts, we thought it would be fun to make them with the cousins to leave for Santa and he could give them to his elves on Christmas Eve.

Our Winter Break and Christmas celebrating were off to a GREAT start!